Some Scandinavian Silver Filigree in the Kremlin Museums.

 Some Scandinavian Silver Filigree in the Kremlin Museums.

For much more on Related Scandinavian Filigree Pieces see -

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-late-17th-century-silver-and-silver.html

Two pieces by Johan Schenk.

Kremlin Museums.

Johan Schenk d.1710

1691

Height: 7,0 cm.

Presented by King Charles XII of Sweden to Tsar Peter I in 1699.

Published "Ratification of friendship …" Ambassadorial gifts to Russian Tsars. Catalogue of the exhibition. Moscow, 2005.

Silver Gifts from Swedish Monarchs to Russian Tsars during the seventeenth century. - Stockholm : Atlantis, 2014.

The Armoury Chamber of Moscow Kremlin Museums. Album. Moscow, 2006.

Museum number МЗ-576.

Box from a Toilet Set.

Johan Schenck d. 1710.

1699

 Height: 6,0 cm

Presented by King Charles XII of Sweden to Tsar Peter I in 1699.

Published "Ratification of friendship …" Ambassadorial gifts to Russian Tsars. Catalogue of the exhibition. Moscow, 2005

Silver Gifts from Swedish Monarchs to Russian Tsars during the seventeenth century. - Stockholm : Atlantis, 2014.

The Armoury Chamber of Moscow Kremlin Museums. Album. Moscow, 2006

Museum number МЗ-575.

Schenk was married to Maria Parman. Schenck came from Hamburg as a journeyman to Stockholm in 1694, where he was employed at Rudolf Wittkopf's workshop. He became a master at the Stockholm guild in 1697.

For Wittkopf see my previous post on Scandinavian Filigree

https://collectiononline.kreml.ru/en/entity/OBJECT/61381?page=4&query=filigree&index=190

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Two related pieces in the National Museum Stockholm.